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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the...
| Автор | Джоржетт Хейер, Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, Freeman Crofts, Wills Crofts |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! When Lady Hester Theale learns Sir Gareth Ludlow is planning to propose to her, she knows she cannot accept. Hester senses that his heart lies elsewhere - so when Sir Gareth arrives at her home with beautiful Amanda Smith in tow, it seems to confirm her worst fears. Yet all is not as it seems - Amanda is in fact a runaway; Gareth's mission is to get her home safely. However, Amanda's startlingly lively imagination proves to...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
The Lofty, isolated Darracott Place is beset with tragedy.
And when the contemptible Lord Darracot's eldest son meets an awful death, the family are left with no other choice than to invite mysterious heir apparent Hugo to stay.
When the handsome young man arrives, their suspicions seem to be confirmed: he is unsophisticated and unworldly. The family resolve to help educate him.
But as time goes on, will the Darracotts learn there's more to Hugo than meets the eye?
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Год | 2021 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
Annis Wychwood delights in her independence.
Beautiful, rich and far too busy for love, she has turned down the advances of many a hopeful suitor.
But when she becomes entangled in the affairs of a runaway heiress, she encounters the girl's guardian, the notorious Oliver Carleton.
While Oliver may be a reckless and uncivil rogue, Annis can't help but be drawn towards his wild ways . . .
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch. Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews. However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Spanish Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards. But once the Battle of Waterloo brings the Napoleonic Wars to a decisive end, the adventure-loving Captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull. When he finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It's...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men. Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since. Returning to England, Jack pretends to be a gentleman named Sir Anthony Ferndale but makes his living in a most ungentlemanly fashion, as a highwayman and a gambler. When Jack encounters his nemesis, the Duke of Andover, in the midst of kidnapping Diana Beauleigh,...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
Vernon Alverstoke sees no reason to put himself out for anyone.
But when a distant connection asks for help, he is quickly plunged into one drama after another by the disorderly Merriville family.
Surprisingly, he finds himself far from bored - especially when he encounters their strong-minded daughter, Frederica.
However, she seems far more concerned with her family's welfare than his romantic advances...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Nell Cardross and her husband are madly in love... But they're very bad at showing it. While Nell believes her new husband, the Earl, married her out of convenience, Giles Cardross worries that his young wife is more interested in his money than his heart. And Nell's secretive and extravagant spending is becoming a problem... As she attempts to pay off her brother's never-ending gambling debts, and prevent the...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Mary Challoner must protect her sister at all costs. When she discovers that the notorious Marquis of Vidal is planning to run away with her little sister, Mary will not stand idly by. To save Sophia's reputation without destroying her own, Mary will take her sister's place - and once the Marquis sees through her disguise, he will be humiliated and forced to return her home. But the irresistible Marquis is a wilder rake than...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they refused to oblige their parents by marrying, they have always been the best of friends. But as Desford pursues Cherry's lickpenny grandfather and reprobate father around unfashionable watering places and the seedier fringes of society, Hetta is forced to...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Endowed with rank, wealth and elegance, Sylvester, Duke of Salford, is ready to find a bride. His pursuit of a partner sets him on course to Phoebe Marlow, a young lady who is far more concerned with riding than sewing or beautiful clothes. With Phoebe struggling to meet her family's demands of gentility and poise, a potential match with Sylvester is exceedingly advantageous. So, it is very intriguing indeed when a visit from her...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! To win her hand, he must become what he despises... In an eighteenth-century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone Charteris stands in no such danger. The golden-haired, headstrong despair of men, she seeks a husband who can duel and dice with the best of them. So Philip leaves for Paris, where his father's hopes and his lover's ideals are realised...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2022 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Beautiful heiress Judith Taverner has her pick of London suitors. But her luck takes a turn for the worse when her hapless brother, Peregrine, becomes the target of a would-be-assassin. To Judith's great annoyance, their mysterious guardian - the handsome Earl of Worth - seems far more intent on wooing her than saving her brother, but all is not as it seems... When the truth is revealed, Judith will finally discover if the Earl...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood, lands and gilded armour. However, his close circle of friends know him by another name: Simon the Coldheart. He seems to be a man incapable of love - until in Normandy he meets Lady Margaret, the so-called spitfire of Belremy. Can she melt Simon's icy demeanour and...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Год | 2005 |
A wonderful Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists, reissued with a beautiful new cover as part of our Heyer backlist project Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge. When he captures a galleon at sea, and the treasure turns out to be the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Silva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. But, upon his immediate return, he proposes another venture; one more reckless than any of...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Год | 2022 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate. When the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero is overjoyed - she'll escape a life as a governess and, once they wed, he can finally claim his inheritance. But as Hero attempts to social climb in glamorous London society, Sherry is concerned that her naivety will ruin them both and takes drastic action. The chaos that follows will push friendships - and hearts - to...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
1745: Robin and Prudence Merriot have been adventurers and dissemblers since they were children.
And as escaped Jacobites, they need to be.
Forced to go on the run, they disguise themselves and make their way to London where they witness the abduction of a beautiful heiress.
They rescue her, but in so doing Robin's real identity is revealed, and both he and Prudence find themselves in terrible danger ...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2022 |